I'm looking for a craft that you melt plastic cups into decoratvive pins to wear?

Question

Not quite sure of the type of cup or the temperature of the oven or if I even remember this correctly.

Answer 1

There are a number of plastics that people have melted or slumped or shrunk to make pins, etc., so not sure which you're thinking of.

One is "Styrofoam" cups... here's some stuff from my website about that:

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hats made from shrinking foam cups in oven
... place cup upsidedown on cookie sheet and bake in oven at 350, for 1 to 1 1/2 min. (different baking lengths = diff. results)
...scrunched alum foil inside the hat will keep it larger (or in certain areas)... pill bottle filled with weight can be placed inside for more stability
...options (before baking): cut top band off cup, or cut with decorative scissors, cut cup in half; paint or stamp with acrylic/water-based materials, glue on tiny baked polymer flowers, etc.
...heads under hats: bake cup over rolled-up and taped 3x4" cylinder of cardstock or construction paper with face drawn on it, or paint face on an egg and do the same .. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_paper_crafts_origami/article/0,,HGTV_3293_1370963,00.html and http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/article/0,1789,HGTV_3352_1396182,00.html
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And I used to shrink those clear rubbery-plastic drinking cups after coloring them randomly with permanent markers to make blobby shapes that were nice (they didn't shrink evenly, just kind of curled on themselves).

Other types of similar plastic (like clear salad containers) will act just like "shrink plastic" and those can be decorated in all sorts of ways before shrinking (the flat parts will return to flat if heated long enough).

And amber plastic pill containers will melt nicely in the oven into a puddle (into which you can place plastic beads or other things).


Diane B.